Podenco Post

Podenco jewellery on sale by Pro-Galgo International

Pro-Galgo now have some Podenco jewellery on sale. Two pendants or brooches.

Pendant "2 PODENCOS playing"
polished pewter, 75mm width and 55mm high
price 22eur plus shipping 3.50eur
also sold as brooch

also available each dog separately, 17eur plus 3,50 euros postage

Pendant "HOUND head"
Pewter, 55mm height x 40mm wide
also available as a brooch
40eur plus shipping

Valencia perrera - time running out for a young podenco

This young male podenco is still in Valencia perrera...time is running out for him. .

For those of you on facebook, here's a video of him

Contact: [email protected]

(I hope someone can take him; his disabled leg looks like Polar's leg, the disabled galgo puppy I have adopted from Pepis Refuge, Pedrera.)

Sharing the news on Galgo News and Podenco Post

I'd just like to say a BIG THANK YOU to all of my readers of Galgo News and Podenco Post - you are all wonderful - whether supporting my appeals, sharing the stories I post, joining in petitions and letter writing campaigns, buying my book. Thank you, keep reading and keep spreading the news.

Mojacar, Almeria - accommodation wanted

The nightmare for volunteers in Spain working in dog and cat rescue. How does one cope with this sort of pressure? Paw-Patas - 32 puppies, 3 adult dogs dumped in 14 days. The only positive is that they were dumped at the shelter. If you can help either with donations for food, vaccinations etc, or best of all adoption, please contact Paws-Patas direct.

Tenerife, Canary Islands - life behind the sunshine and beaches

Regular readers will know I frequently highlight the maltreatment of the podencos on the Canary Islands. They have a terrible life and their only real chance of a forever home is on mainland Europe.

Evil metal snares are often used in woods and forests and sadly the podencos get caught up in them. The picture below is an illustration of one such case. This female Podenca was found like this in the forest in La Esperanza and is now in Valle Colino shelter in La Laguna, Tenerife. They think her leg has been cut by a trap... She now urgently needs a foster or a forever home. Contact a.vallecolino @ hotmail.es

Pancho, Flora & Araceli - 3 rescued podencos waiting for forever homes.

Macha is another volunteer in Spain rescuing dogs from the streets. Pancho and Flora are two of the podencos and on this video - about 2 mins in - you can meet beautiful young Araceli. Macha speaks English, if you want to contact her about forever homes for her podencos. Details at the end of the 2nd video.

Update on the Valencia podencos

Update on the Valencia podencos.

Greyhound Friends - fun holidays with hounds at Stoke Bruerne May 2014

We rarely get away together on holiday - always one of us staying at home to dog/cat/horse sit! We bought a caravan 2 years ago to MAKE ourselves take the occasional break - it's yet to be used as anything other than a spare bedroom! The following information popped into my Inbox and it looks just the thing to put in our diary for next year.

Valencia hellhole - two rescued podencas enjoying their first day of freedom

Lovely video of the two podencas now safe with Bev and Warren in Murcia.

Podenca Andaluz Bebe - rescued injured from a Seville motorway, safe in France

Podenca Andaluz come in 3 sizes, small, medium and large. My podenca Bebe is a miniature - weighing in at a mere 6 kilos aged 10 years. She was rescued injured and traumatized from a Seville motorway over 4 years ago by my friend Marisa, a volunteer with El Refugio Escuela. My vet operated on her leg and saved it and she is now the fastest little dynamite on 4 legs! The only time we see a handicap with her leg is when she goes down stairs - she carries her left leg. You can see the scars on her hind quarters where the hair has never grown back. Adorable little dog! Here on video at lunchtime. Scrounging, not me! Nudging your leg to remind you I'm here - not me!